All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
For this years lent i decided to go on a seven week social media fast. No Tumblr and Facebook in this time. I know this is factually a day earlier than necessary but i think i´ll start with that, NOW.
If anyone here want to contact me, just use my email.
I´m looking forward to see all of you again, for easter. Have a good Time!
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
George Orwell got it backward.
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted.
He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled.
And this being fed is worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (via books-n-quotes)
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
to quote arthur dent from “ the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”: “It´s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody´s said to me all day”.
found it in the “zeit magazine”.and it took me abou 10 Minutes to find a frame and hang it above my bed..it´s a reprint of a british propaganda poster from 1939. it was discovered by people from
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Cooper: You don’t believe we went to the Moon?
Ms. Kelly: I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines…
Cooper: Useless machines?
Ms. Kelly: And if we don’t want to repeat of the excess and wastefulness of the 20th Century then we need to teach our kids about this planet, not tales of leaving it.
Cooper: You know, one of those useless machines they used to make was called an MRI, and if we had one of those left the doctors would have been able to find the cyst in my wife’s brain, before she died instead of afterwards, and then she would’ve been the one sitting here, listening to this instead of me which would’ve been a good thing because she was always the… calmer one.
From: interstellar
Imho, one of the best scenes of that film, perfectly showing what robert anton wilson called “revolution of lowered expectations.” Exactly what is happening right now… a lot.
The simple things
